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ArticleAnnals of neurology2025

Toward a Universal Map of EEG: A Semantic, Low-Dimensional Manifold for EEG Classification, Clustering, and Prognostication.

Laura Krumm, Dominik D Kranz, Mustafa Halimeh, Alexander Nelde, Edilberto Amorim, Sahar Zafar, Jin Jing, Robert J Thomas, M Brandon Westover, Christian Meisel

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Article in Annals of neurology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. [A method for predicting neurological outcomes after cardiac arrest based on time-frequency domain feature fusion].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2026
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Laura KrummComputational Neurology, Department of Neurology and Berlin Institute of Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7926-8661
Dominik D KranzComputational Neurology, Department of Neurology and Berlin Institute of Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0009-0001-1852-5978
Mustafa HalimehComputational Neurology, Department of Neurology and Berlin Institute of Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5071-9326
Alexander NeldeComputational Neurology, Department of Neurology and Berlin Institute of Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1248-8504
Edilberto AmorimUniversity of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6972-5622
Sahar ZafarMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5252-5376
Jin JingHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Robert J ThomasHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5575-3953
M Brandon WestoverHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4803-312X
Christian MeiselComputational Neurology, Department of Neurology and Berlin Institute of Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2984-5480

Funding

Bridge2AI: Patient-Focused Collaborative Hospital Repository Uniting Standards (CHoRUS) for Equitable AIOT2OD032701 · OD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BIHORAC, AZRA, CLERMONT, GILLES · 2022 to 2025
$24.6M
Late-onset Unexplained Epilepsy as a Risk Factor for DementiaR01NS130119 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Alice D Lam · 2023 to 2026
$8.7M
Data-Driven Sleep Biomarkers of Brain Health, Heart Health, and MortalityR01HL161253 · NHLBI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI CLIFFORD, GARI DAVID, MIGNOT, EMMANUEL J · 2022 to 2025
$8.3M
Comparative Safety of Seizure Prophylaxis within the Medicare ProgramR01AG073410 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Lidia Maria Veras Rocha de Moura · 2021 to 2026
$4.1M
Low Neurophysiologic Resistance to Anesthetics as a Marker of Preclinical/Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease and Neurovascular Pathology, Delirium risk and InattentionR01AG073598 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Miles Berger · 2022 to 2026
$3.8M
Integrative Motor Activity Biomarker for the Risk of Alzheimer's RiskRF1AG064312 · NIA · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI HU, KUN · 2019 to 2019
$3.6M
Investigation of Sleep in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU-SLEEP)R01NS102190 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WESTOVER, MICHAEL BRANDON · 2018 to 2022
$3.2M
Prospective Validation of Neurophysiologic Outcome Prediction in Acute Brain InjuryR01NS126282 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI Aaron F Struck, Michael Brandon Westover · 2023 to 2026
$2.9M
Big Data and Deep Learning for the Interictal-Ictal-Injury ContiuumR01NS107291 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WESTOVER, MICHAEL BRANDON · 2018 to 2022
$2.8M
Establishing a Brain Health Index from the Sleep ElectroencephalogramRF1NS120947 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WESTOVER, MICHAEL BRANDON · 2021 to 2021
$2.4M
Comparative Effectiveness of EEG-Guided Anti-Seizure Treatment in Acute Brain InjuryR01NS131347 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Sahar F Zafar · 2024 to 2026
$1.9M
Addressing an Inherent Bias in Neuroprognostication: A Collaboration Between the US and Brazil to Reduce the Impact of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Cardiac ARrEst (SPARE)R01NS128342 · NINDS · BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER · PI David Matthew Greer, Gisele Sampaio Silva · 2024 to 2026
$1.9M
Dr. Amorim 1OT2OD032701Dr. Amorim K23NS119794Dr. Amorim R01NS128342Dr. Westover 2014431Dr. Westover R01AG073410Dr. Westover R01AG073598Dr. Westover R01HL161253Dr. Westover R01NS126282Dr. Westover R01NS130119Dr. Westover R01NS131347Dr. Westover RF1AG064312Dr. Westover RF1NS120947NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy EXC2049-89829218NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL161253NIA NIH HHS R01 AG073410NIA NIH HHS R01 AG073598NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG064312NIH HHS OT2 OD032701NINDS NIH HHS K23 NS119794NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS102190NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS107291NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS120947NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS126282NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS128342NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS130119NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS131347NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS120947
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Abstract

objectivePrognostication in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOCs) remains challenging because of heterogeneous etiologies, pathophysiologies and, consequently, highly variable electroencephalograms (EEGs). Here, we use EEG patterns that are well-characterizable to create a latent map that positions novel EEGs along a continuum. We asses this map as a generalizable tool to extract prognostically valuable information from long-term EEG, by predicting outcome post-cardiac arrest as a first use case.

methodsCategorizable EEGs across the health-disease continuum (wake [W], sleep [rapid eye movement (REM), non-REM (N1, N2, N3)], ictal-interictal-continuum [lateralized and generalized periodic discharges (LPD, GPD) and lateralized and generalized rhythmic delta activity (LRDA, GRDA)], seizures [SZ], burst suppression [BS]; 20,043 patients, 288,986 EEG segments) are arranged meaningfully in a low-dimensional space via a deep neural network, resulting in a universal map of EEG (UM-EEG). We assess prognostication after cardiac arrest (576 patients, recovery or death) based on long-term EEGs represented as trajectories in this continuous embedding space.

resultsClassification of out-of-sample EEG match state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms while extending it to the currently largest set of classes across the health-disease continuum (mean area under the receiver-operating-characteristic curve [AUROCs] 1-vs-all classification: W, 0.94; REM, 0.92; N1, 0.85; N2, 0.91; N3, 0.98; GRDA, 0.97; LRDA, 0.97; SZ, 0.87; GPD, 0.99; LPD, 0.97; BS, 0.94). UM-EEG enables outcome prediction after cardiac arrest with an AUROC of 0.86 and identifies interpretable factors governing prognosis such as the distance to healthy states over time.

interpretationUM-EEG presents a novel and physiologically meaningful representation to characterize brain states along the health-disease continuum. It offers new opportunities for personalized, long-term monitoring and prognostication. ANN NEUROL 2025;98:357-368.

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Consciousness DisordersElectroencephalographyAdultAgedCluster AnalysisFemaleHeart ArrestHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisSemantics

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